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The edition of Monday, September 28, 2026

Every news article the Bureau published that day — 24 articles, newest first. Past editions never disappear: the links below are the original, permanent URLs.

Trade

Court kills the tariff machine; Trump reaches for the next lever

The Supreme Court struck down the president's emergency-powers tariffs 6–3, and Trump answered within 24 hours. The Supreme Court struck down the…

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Technology

TSMC says AI chip demand will outrun supply 'for years'

CEO C.C. Wei told investors the AI chip shortage isn't ending: advanced nodes run at full capacity, 2nm orders jumped 10–20%, Arizona won a $265 billion commitm

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Security

Nearly 90,000 flee as El Fasher's shadow spreads across North Darfur

A UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now…

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Finance

Washington weighs exporting the dollar as stablecoin to fund its own debt

Washington wants to export the dollar as stablecoin — a cross-agency push to fund deficits with token demand abroad. The plan to dollarize crypto.

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Security

Two mass shootings, one night: 27 dead in South Africa

Seventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday. With no arrests and a third massacre days

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Politics

Vučić resigns the presidency to run for prime minister

Barred from a third presidential term, Aleksandar Vučić quit the presidency on September 27 and will lead his Serbian Progressive Party into a snap parliamentar

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Technology

Samsung bets big on the machines that print the AI era

Samsung commits to High-NA EUV chipmaking tools in memory production by 2028 — an industry first. The ASML deal that redraws the AI chip map.

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Industry

Volkswagen's $7 billion Canadian battery dream slips to 2029

PowerCo, VW's battery arm, pushed back its giant St. Thomas gigafactory two years while naming a general contractor to keep construction moving.

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Money

Beijing opens the liquidity taps with a record trillion-yuan backstop

China's central bank pumps a trillion yuan a day into banks through Golden Week — its biggest liquidity backstop ever. Why Beijing is flooding the system.

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Politics

Netanyahu under scrutiny over pre-October 7 warnings

The Wall Street Journal reports Egypt warned Netanyahu three times before October 7; Haaretz reports a UAE warning ten days out. Netanyahu denies both, flew sec

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Resources

A drought in Sulawesi shakes the world's nickel machine

Water shortages forced smelters at Indonesia's giant Morowali nickel park to cut stainless-steel feedstock output, rattling prices.

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Security

Indian and Pakistani warships collide in the Arabian Sea

On September 15, Pakistan's PNS Hunain and India's INS Kolkata collided in the North Arabian Sea during Pakistan's SEASPARK-26 exercise. Both navies blame each

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Climate

Hurricane Polo bears down on Baja California

Category 3 Hurricane Polo — 125 mph winds — is bearing down on Mexico's Baja California peninsula with life-threatening flooding forecast for Monday, as Hurrica

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Security

Houthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate

The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth. The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and…

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Energy

The battle over Hormuz is now a battle over the numbers

Reuters tallies show visible tanker traffic through the strait at single digits and freight rates at records. Khalid Al-Harbi — Saudi Arabia · Energy…

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Geopolitics

Iran offers to reopen Hormuz in seven days — if the U.S. pays the price

Tehran's offer at the UN: lift the naval blockade, waive oil sanctions, ceasefire — and Hormuz reopens in seven days. Trump says he said no. The full terms.

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Geopolitics

The High Seas Treaty hits 100 ratifications

Germany, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Zimbabwe, Brunei and Samoa pushed the BBNJ treaty past 100 parties at the UN General Assembly — and set up a Janua

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Technology

Gates: AI is powerful enough to 'cause a billion deaths'

On Meet the Press, Bill Gates said AI is 'certainly powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths,' dismissed voluntary safeguards as insufficient

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Politics

France's far right cracks the Senate: the National Rally wins its first parliamentary group

Fourteen senators, one parliamentary group, and a first in the Fifth Republic: the Rassemblement National and Éric Ciotti's UDR are about to plant their flag in

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Finance

France pays the crisis premium again: OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points

France now pays more than Italy and Greece to borrow: the OAT-Bund spread tops 100 basis points for the first time since 2012, as debt nears 119% of GDP.

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Energy

Brussels warns of a winter energy price crisis

EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen has warned ministers of a price crisis 'linked to a supply crisis': gas storage sits far below last year's levels, Europe i

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Markets

The dollar reclaims 101 as Treasury yields cross five percent and gold retreats

The dollar index hits an eight-week high and the 10-year Treasury yield crosses 5% — unseen since 2007. Gold falls below $4,300. The Fed arithmetic, in full.

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Trade

Trump's import bans on Canada begin Tuesday

On September 29, the United States will start banning Canadian alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles under a 1932 statute — the first outright imp

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau
Politics

Six days to the vote: Brazil's dead heat goes to the runoff

Lula leads Flávio Bolsonaro 42% to 37% in the BTG/Nexus poll six days before the first round — but the October 25 runoff is a statistical tie, and the man runni

28 Sep 2026 · Magna Bureau